I Read Quotes

1362 I Read quotes by 1094 unique authors

I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place. — Anne Tyler
Friends can be a pain. They can be demanding and hard work. But maybe that's because they're the wrong friends. I read a quote once,… — Lisa Jewell
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it. — William Faulkner
We've all led raucous lives, some of them inside, some of them out. But only the poem you leave behind is what's important. Everyone knows… — Charles Wright
The first time I read an excellent book, it is to me just as if I had gained a new friend. When I read a… — Oliver Goldsmith
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I know because I read...Your mind is not a cage. It's a garden. And it requires cultivating. — Libba Bray
I'm going to be dead before I read the books I'm going to read. — Tom Stoppard
The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do… — John Adams
To go into solitude, a man needs to retire as much from his chamber as from society. I am not solitary whilst I read and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most. — Margaret Atwood
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a… — A. J. Jacobs
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. — Carol Shields
Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded… — Albert Camus
I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far… — Alberto Manguel
... the state of rapture I experience when I read a wonderful book is one of the main reasons I read; but it doesn't happen… — Nora Ephron
Me, I've seen 45 years, and I've only figured out one thing. That's this: if a person would just make the effort, there's something to… — Haruki Murakami
GOING TO WALDEN It isn't very far as highways lie. I might be back by nightfall, having seen The rough pines, and the stones, and… — Mary Oliver
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I write for the same reason I read: because it's all there is for me. — Christian Bauman
I am a Jane Austenite, and therefore slightly imbecile about Jane Austen. My fatuous expression, and airs of personal immunity-how ill they sit on the… — E. M. Forster
I sat on the bench outside of class today and talked to Jon. I read to him from my journal, it was the part about… — Sabrina Ward Harrison
But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last… — Shane Claiborne
I read the Bible and know little of its history, but the human beings who wrote it were instruments of Divine Power, and Jesus forged… — Paulo Coelho
When I was a kid I believed everything I was told, everything I read, and every dispatch sent out by my own overheated imagination. This… — Stephen King

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